 Archive for the 'Doctor Who' CategoryChristmas in July: ‘Doctor Who’ special hits iTunesJuly 3rd, 2009, 2:15 pm by Jayson Peters
If you missed it on BBC America — or, like me, miss watching it on the lower-tier Sci Fi Channel — the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special is now available to download from Apple’s iTunes Store. “The Next Doctor” costs $1.99 and presents the itinerant Time Lord with an interesting dilemma: meeting himself. Read the rest of this entry » ‘Doctor Who’ RPG set for fall releaseJune 24th, 2009, 9:03 pm by Jayson Peters
Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space will be available in October. Published by Cubicle 7, the release is a deluxe box set that contains a 144-page Gamemaster’s Guide, an 86-page Player’s Guide, a 30-page Adventures Book, a four-page Quick Start Guide, pregenerated character sheets, blank character sheets, gadget sheets, tokens and dice. Hopefully, like the Doctor’s TARDIS, the box will be both indestructible and bigger on the inside than it is on the outside — because it will set you back $59.95. Come to think of it, why isn’t the “deluxe” packaging in the shape of a British police call box, also like the TARDIS? This is the third official tabletop RPG based on Doctor Who: FASA published one in the ’80s and Virgin in the ’90s. The new game naturally focuses on the 2005 relaunch of the classic series that ran from 1963-89. But with 45 years of accumulated lore from TV episodes, original novels and plays and two spinoffs to date, there is plenty of material to support a full range of gaming supplements — if the market is there for them.
Now, when is somebody going to get around to making a decent video game based on Doctor Who? Guess ‘Who’s’ coming to Comic-Con?June 17th, 2009, 10:49 am by Jayson PetersVia Outpost Gallifrey:
See also: This and That: Everything old is new againJune 8th, 2009, 9:28 pm by Jayson Peters
Time’s up for ‘Doctor Who’ fan Web siteJune 3rd, 2009, 7:32 pm by Jayson PetersOutpost Gallifrey and the Doctor Who Forum, the most popular Doctor Who fan Web site on the Internet, will be closing for good July 31, the site announced in its forums and news page on Tuesday. Not even the robust news page, the only part of the site to be maintained regularly of late, will continue. The only part of the site that will remain operational is the official page of its annual Gallifrey One conventions, which will go on. The next event, Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21, will be in Los Angeles in February 2010. Read the rest of this entry » Sci-fi series give BBC America HD out-of-this-world welcomeJune 1st, 2009, 11:33 am by Jayson PetersBBC America finally goes HD on July 20, and it’s kicking off with a week of sci-fi premieres for U.S. audiences: the return of the channel’s highest rated series, Torchwood, the latest Doctor Who special, “Planet of the Dead,” the BBC AMERICA co-production Being Human and the thrilling third season finale of Primeval. Read the rest of this entry » Karen Gillan hitches a ride in the TARDISMay 29th, 2009, 7:43 am by Jayson Peters
The Doctor Who announcements keep coming this week:
Gillan appeared in the season four Doctor Who episode “The Fires of Pompeii,” as the Soothsayer. ‘Doctor Who’ in U.S. jumps from Sci Fi to BBC AmericaMay 27th, 2009, 9:53 pm by Jayson PetersAccording to Variety, BBC America will be the U.S. home of the final episodes of Doctor Who to star current leading man David Tennant — not Sci Fi Channel, which has aired the previous four seasons of the program.
‘Who’ news: A spinoff surprise, a new cartoon — and a movie?May 26th, 2009, 8:46 pm by Jayson Peters
Doctor Who fans have had some time now to get used to the idea of series star David Tennant turning in his keys to the TARDIS next year. But it’s going to be a long goodbye. According to the BBC, Tennant will appear in a two-part episode of Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures this fall. Russell T. Davies, executive producer of both Sarah Jane and Doctor Who, said it would be a “full on appearance” and “not just a cameo.” Investigative journalist and longtime TARDIS passenger Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen, above with Tennant in a 2006 Doctor Who episode) will team up again with the Doctor to save the world from another alien menace. Read the rest of this entry » 3 things I want from ‘Doctor Who’ in 2010April 11th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters
“Planet of the Dead,” the second of four Doctor Who specials planned for 2009, airs today on BBC One in the U.K. Who knows when it will air here in the States? One thing we do know: Change is coming. Last year David Tennant announced he will be leaving the long-running sci-fi drama, to be replaced in 2010 by young actor Matt Smith, the 11th incarnation of the Time Lord. Russell T. Davies, the man who brought Doctor Who back after a hiatus of 16 years, also is leaving as producer, turning the reins over to writer Steven Moffat. Both of these changes will have far-reaching effects on the franchise, including but not limited to a switch to HD filming and a redesign of the TARDIS interior. Beyond the cosmetic, here are a few more substantial changes I hope we’ll see. More of the TARDIS’ innards Ever since Doctor Who relaunched in 2005, all we’ve seen of the TARDIS interior is the Console Room and, briefly, the wardrobe. In the old days we saw corridors, personnel quarters, the sensory-depriving Zero Room, the tranquil Cloister Room — even a swimming pool and the rarely-sighted Secondary Console Room. Scots want to resurrect TARDIS-like police boxesMarch 24th, 2009, 10:35 pm by Jayson Peters
Airlock Alpha’s man in Scotland reports that police there want to bring back the blue call boxes immortalized in the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who. 2009 Hugo Award nominees announcedMarch 19th, 2009, 7:18 pm by Jayson PetersHere are the nominees for the 2009 Hugo Awards, science fiction’s most prestigious honor. The Hugos are voted on by the thousands of members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), which is also responsible for administering the awards. Winners will be announced at Worldcon in Montreal this August.
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A roleplaying game based on the hit British sci-fi series Doctor Who will hit hobby stores this fall.
Just announced: Special guests at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con include new Doctor Who series creator Russell T. Davies and the show’s lead actor, David Tennant (pictured). They will join former executive producer Julie Gardner and director Euros Lyn on a special panel on Saturday, 26 July, 10:00 am - 11:00 am.
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